On Apr 29, 10:26am, Jean Orloff wrote: } Most of these users do stupid non-demanding things like email, netscape, TeX } and the like. So I think it would pay to move in the direction of cheap PC's } which can handle those rather dumb actions locally, giving them enough memory } (>~24Mb) to accomodate one extra Xterm on top of the local PC user. This would } free the workstations for the more demanding computations at relatively little cost. } } Can any of you provide me some numbers/weapons for this uneven fight? (I'm a } physicist, they're the informaticians...)
Maybe start by not saying them they're doing stupid/dumb things: no one (well, nearly no one) likes to be called an idiot... And don't be so sure TeX is not a demanding tool. Yves. -- Yves Arrouye | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www-scope.imag.fr/~arrouye 7, av. Leon Bollee +-----------------------+---------+------------------------ 75013 Paris | Home voice: +33 1 53 61 09 55 | Fax: +33 1 53 61 09 55 France | Please use these only between 8:00 AM and 11:00 PM, MET!
